- aardvark, ant bear, anteater, Orycteropus afer - nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
--1 is a kind of placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal
--1 is a member of Orycteropus, genus Orycteropus